Rare blue-eyed cicada spotted during 2024 emergence at suburban Chicago arboretum

The 2024 cicada emergence is underway in Illinois

It was late morning when The Morton Arboretum's Senior Horticulturist Kate Myroup arrived at the Children’s Garden with a special guest: a rare, blue-eyed female Magicicada cassini cicada, spotted earlier in the day by a visitor. A lucky few saw the cicada Friday in Morton, Illinois, before its release back into the world in suburban Chicago to join its red-eyed relatives, the more common look for most cicada species, as the 2024 cicada emergence gets underway.

“It’s a casualty of the job,” said Adams, who frequently is decorated with the bugs. Floyd W. Shockley, collections manager of the Department of Entomology at the Smithsonian Institute, said the blue-eyed cicada is rare, but just how rare is uncertain. “It is impossible to estimate how rare since you’d have to collect all the cicadas to know what percentage of the population had the blue eye mutation,” he said. Periodical cicadas emerge every 13 or 17 years.

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